This is a classic Basilica prototype from the symmetrical columnar hall in this modern commercial shopping mall. This discovery leads to the exploration of shifting the space from a commercial to a "sacred" one. The layout is a result of learning from the ancient polytheistic temples in Greece. Inspired by the visual-axis projection principles of the Acropolis. The pink "bridges" are arranged to point to each other, to guide the visitors gradually walking through the deep space of the shop.

Yan Pan, the co-founder and design principle of SpActrum. He graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London, under the supervision of the legendary architect and architectural educator Professor Sir Peter Cook. Pan started his career in London since 2003, and has worked in high-profile design firms, such as Fosters + Partners, KPF and RTKL. His practice cover a wide range of projects, include urban regeneration for Chinese traditional villages, vacation town strategic designs, large-scale public and commercial building designs, art district redevelopment, housing renovations, fashion show scenes designs, and boutique fashion shop rebranding and so on, and have won international awards including AIA SH Award, A’ Design Award, IDA, Asia Design Awards, etc.

SpActrum is a Beijing and London based architectural design studio founded by Yan Pan and Zhen Li, graduates from Bartlett and the AA School, who have been working in architecture in London for many years. The mission of SpActrum is to undertake alternative research methods and critical practice to create new architecture with the quality of “profound reality”.